Euripides, Heracleidae, ed. Gilbert Murray, 608

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Χορός

οὔτινά φημι θεῶν ἄτερ ὄλβιον, οὐ βαρύποτμον,

ἄνδρα γενέσθαι·

οὐδὲ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀεὶ βεβάναι δόμον
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εὐτυχίᾳ· παρὰ δʼ ἄλλαν ἄλλα

μοῖρα διώκει.

τὸν μὲν ἀφʼ ὑψηλῶν βραχὺν ᾤκισε,

τὸν δʼ ἀλέταν εὐδαίμονα τεύχει.

μόρσιμα δʼ οὔτι φυγεῖν θέμις, οὐ σοφί-
615

ᾳ τις ἀπώσεται, ἀλλὰ μάταν ὁ πρό-

θυμος ἀεὶ πόνον ἕξει.

Heracleidae. Euripides. ed. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. 1902.

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Ἡρακλεῖδαι (Greek) (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. I. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.)

Translations (3)

Heracleidae Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.) — 608 focus

Chorus

Without the will of heaven none is blest, none curst, I do maintain;

nor doth the same house for ever tread the path of bliss; for one kind of fortune follows hard upon another; one man it brings to naught from his high estate, another though of no¹ account it crowns with happiness.
610

To shun what fate decrees, is no wise permitted; none by cunning shall thrust it from him; but he, who vainly would do so, shall have unceasing trouble.
615

The Heraclidae (OCR draft) Experimental (The Heraclidae. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

No corresponding passage available

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1852; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Euripides. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Volume 3, Heidelberg: C. F. Winter, 1852. Harvard OCR compared with an independent BSB copy. Native Donner verse citations, Murray reference cards, explicitly located notes and page facsimiles. Unresolved OCR, verse divisions, unlocated notes and printed errata are documented in the source review.) — 608 focus

Ohne die Himmlischen acht' ich der Sterblichen

Keinen für glucklich, keinen für elend.
605

Nimmer auch wandelt in Glück und in Seligkeit

Ewig dasselbe Geschlecht; Ein Schicksal

Folgt auf das andre,

Hebt auf die Höhen des Lebens den Niedrigen,¹

Stürzt den Geweihten des Glückes in Irrsal.²
610

Keiner entfloh dem Geschick; kein Weiser vermag ihm zu wehren;

Wer es bekämpft, hat ewig vergebliche Mühe.

Gegenstrophe.

Euripides Heracleidae 608

ed. Gilbert Murray

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